A bank robbery turns into a race against time to save two innocent people trapped in an airtight vault in this Tarantino-championed British thriller.

The power of kinship is explored in Carol Morley’s drama-documentary, drawn from real life and resonant with the way we live now.

Jessica Hynes’ directorial debut is a life-affirming lesson in the importance of learning to stand up for yourself.

Aliens threaten the world order as zombies stumble through graveyards in Ed Wood’s notorious sci-fi, dubbed one of the worst films ever made.

Amidst the grief of losing her mother, sheltered teen Claudia discovers love for the first time in this beautiful and sublime debut.

Vampires rampage around Hampstead in a strange, bloody cult horror by low-budget sex-gore auteur Andy Milligan.

Dark drama about the doomed relationship of two down-and-outers living in the squalid East End of London in the early 1970s.

This 1930s public information film, an extraordinary combination of paranoia and naivety, was later embraced as an underground classic.

Starring Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons, this drama follows a British politician whose life unravels when he becomes obsessed with his son’s lover.

Programmers, filmmakers, and attendees past and present chart the history of BFI Flare to mark its 40th anniversary, from parties to politics.

A young trans woman embarks on a journey with her estranged father to scatter her mother’s ashes in this tender depiction of identity and family ties.

Existence is laid bare in Kristen Johnson’s soul-stirring portrait of human life, told through the eyes of a filmmaker's trusty camera.

As a young man embarks on a new relationship, he is forced to face the traumas of his past in this remarkable debut feature.

To celebrate the 40th birthday of BFI Flare, one of Europe's largest LGBTIQA+ film festivals, Rhianna Dhillon picks five of her favourites on Player.

Soulful docufiction featuring real-life porn actor Lalo Santos.

David Cronenberg’s chilling thriller in which a young billionaire’s insular world collapses during a limo ride across Manhattan, with Robert Pattinson

Benedict Cumberbatch gives a powerful performance in this visually striking fantasy drama about grief, family, and healing.

São Paulo’s streets can offer danger or opportunity, and for Baby, a young gay man carving out his own existence, they deliver both.

A seductive and smart gay comedy set on a cruisy Greek island.

Takeshi Kitano directs and stars as a Japanese gangster who’s exiled to Los Angeles, where he builds a drugs empire that soon attracts Mafia interest.

Dubbed “the quintessence of gruesomeness”, this noirish psychological horror follows a young woman’s nightmarish evening through Los Angeles.

Cronenberg directs Ralph Fiennes in this chilling psychological drama about a mentally-disturbed man confronting his horrifying childhood memories.

Cronenberg's early horror sees a mad scientist experimenting with parasites that turn residents of a high-rise apartment into ferocious nymphomaniacs.

Jean Renoir's entrancing first colour film is a lyrical coming-of-age tale about a girl living with her English family on the banks of West Bengal.